Between work and home I own eight Apple computers — four iMacs, two MacBook Air, two Mac Pro. So, like any respectable user, I promptly upgraded the operating system to the new version, OS 10.8 (aka Mountain Lion), which has now been available for a few weeks. Around this time last year, its predecessor Lion had come out. On that occasion, after installing it on all my machines, I expressed in a blog post my lukewarm feelings about it.
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Mountain Lion and stuff
August 19, 2012Tags:Apple, computing, Life, Miscellaneous
Posted in Apple, Computing, Life, Miscellaneous | 14 Comments »
On confirmation bias
August 12, 2012Doug Natelson has done an outstanding job at debunking a ridiculous charge of confirmation bias allegedly affecting a recent study of climate change. Such a charge is put forth in an article published in the popular press (on a very prominent venue). While ostensibly aimed at educating the general public about some aspects of how science works, the article sneakily rehashes one of the most common and dangerous misconceptions that exist out there about science, namely that in the end it is not as “objective” as its practitioners claim.
Tags:Physics, Research, Science Education, Science Policy, Society
Posted in Education, Policy, Research, Science, Society | 14 Comments »
Online notes
August 5, 2012Why do students who take courses with me (but colleagues tell me of similar experiences) routinely insist that I scan and post online my very own notes, the hard-to-read, disorganized and sketchy gibberish that I use for lecturing, whereas if I post a neatly put together summary of the basic concepts and formulae — typically after painstakingly making slides, drawings and animations — I am invariably told that “that stuff is useless” ?
Tags:Physics, Science, Science Education, Teaching
Posted in Education, Physics, Science, Teaching | 13 Comments »
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